1 April Understanding and Managing Asbestos Risks Why Managing Asbestos Risks is Important Asbestos remains a significant health risk, particularly in buildings constructed or refurbished before 2000. Despite its widespread use in the past, asbestos is now known to cause serious health issues, including lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. Asbestos is still the biggest workplace killer in Britain, causing around 5,000 deaths … Read More
21 March Understanding Lithium Battery Safety Lithium- batteries have become an integral part of our daily lives both at home and within the workplace, powering everything from smartphones and laptops to electric vehicles including cars, bikes and scooters and renewable energy storage systems. Offering benefits like low maintenance, long lifespans, fast charging, and unlimited cycle life, lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous … Read More
27 February Leveraging Active Monitoring To Improve Safety Active monitoring can have an impactful, positive effect on health and safety in the workplace. It refers to the proactive process of regularly checking and inspecting work areas and activities to ensure compliance with health and safety standards. This approach is essential for maintaining a safe and productive work environment. What is Active Monitoring? Active … Read More
27 October COSHH – culling chemicals Are you at risk of failing before you start? Many organisations quail when faced with the sheer number of substances to capture with their COSHH Assessments, to the extent that they don’t know where to start. Desmond Tutu once wisely said “there is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” … Read More
23 August One Year On: Mandatory Isocyanate Training for Worker Safety Today (August 23 2024) marks the one-year anniversary of the regulatory updates that mandated training for workers handling isocyanates and diisocyanates. This significant change in isocyanate training was brought in to enhance workplace safety and protect workers from the harmful effects of these chemicals. One year on, have you taken the required action to stay … Read More
17 July Diisocyanates – Hazards and Controls Diisocyanates (usually referred to as isocyanates in the UK) are a family of highly reactive, low molecular weight chemicals. They are widely used in the manufacture of flexible and rigid foams, fibres, coatings such as paints and varnishes, and elastomers, and are increasingly used in the automobile industry, auto body repair, and building. While they … Read More
8 May Avoid the pain and costs of falls from height: No Falls Week 2024 Helping you work safely at height: A Blog Ahead Of No Falls Week 2024 Falls from height are the leading cause of workplace fatalities in the UK, making up 30% of all workplace deaths, with 40 fatalities in 2022-2023. Next week marks the inaugural No Falls Week campaign. No Falls Week (13 – 17 May … Read More
26 March Case Study: Safe Systems Of Work Safe systems of work and risk assessments are vital components in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of employees. Risk assessments help identify hazards and ensure the control measures in place are sufficient, while safe systems of work set out the procedures and protocols that ensure activities can be performed safely. By providing training on risk … Read More
13 February Choosing the right contractor – Health and Safety Consultants included Choosing the right contractor is crucial, especially when it comes to ensuring the safety and well-being of everyone involved, which is why Health and Safety Consultant are included in the decision-making process. Choosing and managing contractors is one of the topics our health and safety consultants talk about with our clients. This may include things … Read More
9 February Case Study: The Dangers Of Wood Dust Wood dust, a common by-product of a wide range of activities, can cause serious and irreversible health problems. As such, employers have a legal duty to control exposure to this hazardous substance. Failure to control exposure can result in asthma, dermatitis, irritation to the skin/eyes/nose, and can cause sino-nasal cancer. Wood dust is flammable and … Read More